I am by no stretch of the imagination a contractor. I am a more of a tinkering maverick who is working to master the art of entertaining myself! Most of my projects have a hint (sometimes strong hints...) of DIY-ing and sometimes outright wackiness. With the deck foundation out of the cabin it was time to get back to closing up the guts of the cabin and getting it comfy. Before you ask, yes I could have purchased traditional insulation at a cost less than $200 but free and creative trumps cash most days for me and it stretches my very small and tight budget for things like quail cages! The blocks are step 2 of my insulation plan. I first used foam insulation sealant stuff to spray into the seams of every stud. My goal is to minimize heat loss. The second step is the insulation blocks, then close up the walls. The third step is having a wood stove (which is still riding around in the trunk of my car...what else should I be carrying around in my trunk? lol)!

So back to my blues...a friend and interior designer came across some blue brick size blocks that seemed to have insulating properties. That was all I needed to hear. I went and inspected the material and figured that I could definitely use them to insulate the cabin walls. On a previous trip I had done a test section and it seemed doable. I am very strategic and had played out the work in my mind many times. In that exercise of mental planning I realized a tape dispenser would make a much easier task of the work at hand. So...my plan was to use tape to hold the bricks together creating sheets of insulation that could pop into the walls between the studs. It took me about 20 minutes to get a system together but with only a short amount of time on site this past Thursday, I was able to complete roughly 1/3 of the cabin! With the walls insulated, I'll next be ready to close up the walls and start the interior decorating...Anyone up for a half day work party? My estimation is that with 2 -3 people, the entire cabin could be done in under 4 hours! And thinks to Friend Tina and Reclaim It Atlanta, I have an ample supply of blue bricks! Progress feels so......um....blue!